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▪ I. compacted, ppl. a.1|kəmˈpæktɪd|
[f. compact v.1 + -ed1; or perh. formed, before the present tense was actually in use, as a more distinctly participial repr. of L. compactus: see compact ppl. a.1]
Firmly and closely joined or pressed together; knit together, compactly made up or composed; condensed, consolidated, compact.
1598Yong Diana 192 Reading these ill compacted lines. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 58 Well set and compacted legs. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 113 The best compacted riches or pleasures, of these Asiaticall Empires. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. 344 The Pores of the compactedst and closest Bodies. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 252 Fire..in that condensed, compacted, fixed state has been deemed phlogiston. 1823W. Buckland Reliq. Diluv. 33 The horn of the rhinoceros, being..a mass of compacted hair-like fibres. 1830Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 116 Resolute, compacted, girt for the fight. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xxi. 576 Cowards who dared not stand before compacted Britons.
▪ II. † comˈpacted, ppl. a.2
[f. compact v.2; app. influenced in use by prec.]
Formed or planned by compact.
1588Greene Pandosto (1843) 12 A compacted knavery of the Bohemians. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 25 Conjunctions..with the Devill (in a compacted confederacy). |